DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

THE C.O.D. SYSTEM

,'By Telegraph—Per Press Association

WELLINGTON. March 12

I lif* annua! conference l of the Xew Zealand Federation of Drapers. Clothiers. iind Boot Retailers is sitting today. The Chairman. .Mr .1. Wallace (Palmerston North) congratulated the Board on its success in securing the Government abolition of the'C.O.D. parcels post system. The retail trade should feel the benefit of the elimination of this in competition. Dealing with the subject the annual report had stated some of the English mail order houses advertised they would continue to do mail order business on the C.O.D. system through the banks, but the hanks had refused to lend tluimselves to this form of

trading

STOWAWAYS FINED

SHIPPING COYS. PRECAUTIONS

WELLINGTON. March 12

That there is a.n impression in Australia it is easitti* to get employment in New Zealand than there, was further attested to-day wlien two stowaways appeared in the Court after coining from Sydney on the Maunganui. Each was fined £o in default 14 days. Both had gone to Sydney from Melbourne, one saying he walked it. It was explained Shipping Coys, were taking great precautions but despite vigilance it was found after vesels put to sea that there were stowaways on board.

AN ACCIDENT,

WANGANUI, March 12

While bra ini nig for the athletic championships on Cooks Gardens track last evening, Jack Foote, aged 19, a mem her of the Wellington team crashed into the fence which surrounds the oval and sustained a serious head injury, being rendered unconscious. He was operated on in the' hospital and regained consciousness. His condition is now satisfactorvi

ARBITRATION COURT

WELLINGTON, March 12.

Before the Arbitration Court in the Related Printing Trades Case, evidence Avas given in support of the employers' case. The Court reserved its decision.

The Court commenced the hearing of the application of the Federated XeAvspaper Proprietors’ Assn, and Master Printers’ Assn, for a new award in respect- to the Federated Typographical Association. The claims of the employers are more particularly directed towards essential amendments in pieceworkers’ conditions and to a return of piecework rates obtaining in the 1925 award.